What’s New In PageLines 2.1

PageLines 2.1 will be officially released today and it adds some new features you’ll love.

This version adds new default meta controls, a brand new Sharebar, support for integration with bbPress/BuddyPress, and a bunch more. With 2.1, you’re site is going to be better than ever…

Meta Setting Defaults

New 'Default' Meta Settings

Since PageLines 2 came out, we’ve had a ton of requests for a way to set defaults for ‘meta-settings’ or page-by-page framework options. The reason for this is because often people want to set something up ‘site-wide’ and tweak on an individual page basis. That’s why we’ve built this functionality into version 2.1

Now you’ll be able to set up your sections in the global defaults panel, and these settings will be overridden if set on a individual page or post.

New Sharebar

New Social Bar & Options

Justifiably, the social ‘sharebar’ included in prior releases was feeling dated. It simply used images and links as opposed to all those new fangled, javascripty, social sharing buttons you’ve been seeing.

For that reason, we’ve rewritten the core sharebar section to use newer, dynamic sharing buttons and functionality.

We’ve also included a couple new options to go along with it, like a site hashtag, and ability to show/hide different social networks.

bbPress and BuddyPress

bbPress and BuddyPress for PageLines

Our old friends bbPress, a popular WordPress forum, and BuddyPress, a social network for WordPress, are back!

Since the launch of PageLines 2 we’ve heard a lot of clammoring for better support of these popular extension suites. That’s why we’ve spent some serious time building deep support into the framework.

Other Stuff to Rock Your World

New Search Toggle

Overall, there were something like 200 code changes between 2.0 and 2.1. So again we can’t cover every little improvement. Also in 2.1 you’ll see a new search field, better color handling, improvements to thumbs, a bunch of new sorting functions, etc..

Template Names

New Template Naming

We’ve also changed the naming convention for templates. In prior releases it’s always been something descriptive like ‘banner page’, ‘feature page, etc… This quickly became a problem with drag and drop, because the template wasn’t always representative.

The least we can do is change the template naming to not be descriptive. That’s why we’ve changed the template naming convention in 2.1. There won’t be bugs or upgrade issues because of this…

@FrankKarmeyer @pross don’t know why, but the following phrases and words are the ones i had to translate again after update. can someone explain it to me? here they are: Leave a CommentShareTagged withSearchone response tox responses to

@arpowers With experimentation I find that it is only when I go from a 1.5 to 2.1. It does not happen when I go from 2.x and up. Actually it was wiping all widgets clean that I used the htmljavascript plugin in. But to be honest it is such a quick fix, I wasn’t paying attention. I cannot say for certain that it was only THAT plugin but that was the one that I noticed wiped clean.

@showpeople @arpowers Yes it does that when going from 1.5 -> 2.x since it is a new platform entirely. Installing any other theme would do the same thing. It’s always recommended to move widget items to the inactive area before changing themes. :)

@simple_mama @kidrichmond Thanks for the quick response Simple mama! What does dd stand for? I’m logged into my wordpress admin and I’ve looked in every section and don’t see anything. Can you give me some more guidance please

Cannot manage to get the autoupdate to work. I’ve yet to update to Framework after the initial purchase (to allow time for kinks to resolve) so I’m still running in PlatformBase 1.0.4 and the “unactivated” PlatformPro 1.5.3. Not sure if this has anything to do with it. Furthermore, I have indeed updated the Pagelines Settings–>Misc Settings–>Configure Auto Updates …with my Dashboard Username/Password.

@arpowers@Witte Until this is sorted out you need to provide a bespoke option as this isn’t nearly professional enough for the brand you’re trying to promote. I can see offering these as a config option but you should “at least” offer the old style as a config option too. At this point I’d resist upgrading for this reason as it seems to cheapen the brand of my website.

Sorry to be harsh but a little “javascript cool” can be pretty uncool when you’re using mixed implementations, it creates layout delays, you loose layout control, and the various providers have inconsistent layout. I really think for your target audience (aka, professional and willing to pay $$$ for the theme) they’re going to line up much more strongly on the “make it look professional” versus “make it look cool” side of the fence.

I like the direction but not the implementation of the new sharebar. I think you’re going to need to provide a few more config options to please the masses too. For instance having numerics against the share icons is good for some site and bad for others. Also, you need a simple way — not unlike what WordPress offers as part of their new Jetpack — to embed sharing at the summary level on the main blog page rather than just at the individual blog page. Let’s face it … people are often just reading summaries and then wanting credit for having read the whole thing. ;^)

I’m excited that you made such an extensive update so quickly and much in response to customer requests rather than just stuff you had originally planned. It gives me hope that some of the other little things that we’ve requested will get the same love sooner than later. Question — why no “Get Satisfaction” type of feature request area?

Update went really well, only minor problems with borders around the images. Fixed with img {border:0 none;}. The only other issue is to find the CSS for the post thumbnails as they now have a border, background and shadow. Not having much look with Firebug :(

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